Field Trip to Black Hawk
State Historic Site
Rock Island, Illinois
Here is a Scavenger Hunt for you – let’s learn about Black Hawk and the park
before your trip.
Black Hawk mixes
nature, history
1. Sauk and Fox Indians once
wove straw mats and dried pumpkin rings on wooden bars at _______Black Hawk
State Historic Site_____.
2. Ms. Carvey-Stewart asks
students what an Indian is. What does
she want them to say? _______“The first people to live in America” .
3. How many school children
visit the Hauberg Indian Museum at the Black Hawk State Historic Site each
year? ______10,000______
Chief Black Hawk and the Black
Hawk War
4. What was Black Hawk’s full
name (in English)? ________________Black Sparrow Hawk______________________
5. Where and when was Black
Hawk born? _at Saukenauk an area three to five miles north of where the Rock
River in Illinois meets the Mississippi River located near present day Rock
Island, Illinois in 1767.
6. What was Black Hawk’s name
in his native tongue? ______________
_____________Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak ____________
7. Was Black Hawk a chief? Yes
No
8. Black Hawk was married to a
woman named __Singing Bird ___.
Victory and DeSoto,
Wisconsin - Battle of Bad Axe
9. What city is the general
site of the final battle of the Black Hawk War? _______________Victory,
Wisconsin_________________________.
10.
Black
Hawk was a leader of the __Sac___ and ___Mesquakie (Fox)___
Indians in northern Illinois during the period of westward expansion into the
newly opened ___Louisiana__ __Purchase_____.
11.
Who
was Black Hawk an ally to during the War of 1812? _______
______________The British __________.
12.
___De
Soto, Wisconsin____ was started as a trading post after the Black Hawk War.
13.
What
were Black Hawk’s farewell words? “You
have taken me prisoner with all my warriors - ___I fought hard______.”
Ethnobotany
of Black Hawk State Historic Site – click on Index
of Plants
14.
Name
two plants in the Wetland/River Habitat:
a.
_Arrowhead Rush _____
b.
__Cattail Willow_____
15.
Name
two plants in the Prairie Habitat:
_Butterfly
Weed, Pale Purple Coneflower, Rattlesnake Master, Wild Bergamot/Bee Balm, White
False Indigo/Prairie False Indigo, Smooth Aster____
16.
Name
two plants in the Forest Habitat:
_Black
Walnut, Bloodroot, Box Elder, Cedar, Elm, Jack-in-the-pulpit, American
Linden/Common Basswood, Osage orange, Spring Beauty, Sugar Maple__
Virtual Tour of Trees at Black Hawk State Historic Site
17.
Take
a tour of the trees you will find at Black Hawk State Historic Site.
a.
Tree
A ____Hackberry – Celtis occidentalis__________
b.
Tree
B ____Black Walnut – Juglands nigra___
c.
Tree
C ____White Oak – Quercus alba
__
d.
Tree
D ____Shagbark Hickory – Carya ovata_____
Statue of the warrior Black Hawk
18.
What
was the name of the Sauk village, which was the largest Native American village
in the present United States? __ Saukenauk____.
19.
In
1891, a Chicago sculptor, ____David Richards___________, carved the
sculpture (of Black Hawk) – free-hand and without any measurements.
20.
Where
did the sculpture stand for 62 years before it was moved to its present site in
front of the Watch Tower Lodge at the Black Hawk State Historic Site? _____Spencer
Square in Rock Island________.
Prepared
by Mrs. Slonneger, www.keyboardconnections.com